Devon, Let wvdial run in the background, and if you can open a tab or another terminal shell please do $ sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf and add nameserver 64.40.40.53 nameserver 66.54.140.10 If you can leave "Stupid mode = yes", it would be much better. Please add the numbers to /etc/resolv.conf save and try browsing again. Regards, Antonio On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:39 PM, D Brewer <interscientific@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jacques, > > Two other helpful members of this list told me how to edit the pap-secrets file, and I have done so successfully. I tried to connect via wvdial but still had trouble. > > Here's the report from the terminal from my first attempt: > > carolyn@carolyn-desktop:~$ sudo wvdial > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60 > --> Initializing modem. > --> Sending: ATZ > ATZ > OK > --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 > ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 > OK > --> Modem initialized. > --> Sending: ATDT495-1000 > --> Waiting for carrier. > ATDT495-1000 > CONNECT 460800 > --> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately. > --> Starting pppd at Wed Dec 17 18:21:54 2008 > --> Pid of pppd: 9054 > --> Using interface ppp0 > --> local IP address 64.40.61.188 > --> remote IP address 64.40.40.6 > --> primary DNS address 64.40.40.53 > --> secondary DNS address 66.54.140.10 > > Caught signal 2: Attempting to exit gracefully... > --> Terminating on signal 15 > --> Connect time 1.7 minutes. > --> Disconnecting at Wed Dec 17 18:23:40 2008 > > I waited a couple of minutes after it showed the DNS addresses, and opened Firefox, but couldn't navigate to any online sites. So I hit ctrl-C to exit. > > Then I edited the wvdial.conf file to comment out "Stupid Mode = yes". I tried wvdial again, and here's what the terminal showed: > > carolyn@carolyn-desktop:~$ sudo wvdial > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60 > --> Initializing modem. > --> Sending: ATZ > ATZ > OK > --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 > ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 > OK > --> Modem initialized. > --> Sending: ATDT495-1000 > --> Waiting for carrier. > ATDT495-1000 > CONNECT 460800 > --> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. > CVX Access Switch. > Access is restricted to authorized users only. > login: > --> Looks like a login prompt. > --> Sending: guest > guest > password: > --> Looks like a password prompt. > --> Sending: (password) > Exiting shell, and starting PPP session. > ~[7f]}#@!}!}!} }8}!}$}%\}"}&} }*} } }%}&:ZRF}'}"}(}"*G~ > --> PPP negotiation detected. > --> Starting pppd at Wed Dec 17 18:26:01 2008 > --> Pid of pppd: 9183 > --> Using interface ppp0 > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > --> local IP address 64.40.61.231 > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > --> remote IP address 64.40.40.6 > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > --> primary DNS address 64.40.40.53 > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > --> secondary DNS address 66.54.140.10 > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > Caught signal 2: Attempting to exit gracefully... > --> Terminating on signal 15 > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > --> Connect time 1.8 minutes. > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > --> pppd: ��[06][08]H�[06][08] > --> Disconnecting at Wed Dec 17 18:27:54 2008 > > I tried the same procedure of opening Firefox and navigating to a real web site, but with no luck. Am I not waiting long enough, or is there still a problem? > > Thank you again for your detective work! > > Devon > > > --- On Wed, 12/17/08, Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: unable to connect with internal modem under Ubuntu >> To: "Linmodems" <discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Devon Brewer" <interscientific@xxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 12:52 PM >> Devon and list: >> this thread was long and I believe that I solved it - >> sufficiently general saga worth being in archive. >> >> Devon has an HSF modem in his Ubuntu 8.04 box. >> He correctly installed the driver but could not achieve a >> connection. >> I have the same modem on my RedHat modified (aka Scientific >> Linux) in my box. >> I met no problem getting connected first to my University >> then to Devon's ISP http://www.nocharge.com/ with S.L. >> I then loaded my old Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD, installed the >> driver (from the generic file, not the precompiled), from >> Linuxant. >> Either with wvdial or with the Ubuntu >> System->Administration->Network tool, I immediately >> got connected to my University but experienced the same >> rejection as observed by Devon with his ISP. >> I have no scruple disclosing the username, password and >> phone number of his ISP because they are publicly displayed >> on the Web page quoted above. The username was aptly chosen >> as "guest" by the ISP. >> >> The debugging option of pppd (syslog) made me find out that >> the cause was a PAP rejection. >> >> Lo and behold, the file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets on the Ubuntu >> 7.04 Live CD, and probably every Ubuntu distro, contains a >> block of restricted user id's to which dialling is >> denied. Of course my RedHat based system does not have that >> block. >> >> Sure enough, "guest" is in the blacklist !!! >> >> Devon: locate that line in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets , insert a >> # at the beginning to make it ignored by pppd, and let me >> know if you get connected, as I did. I am really eager to >> know that you too can now connect. >> I tried with the Ubuntu network manager above, not with >> wvdial, because Ubuntu sufficiently mocks Windows in hiding >> things and decides for the user what he wants to do without >> letting him ask, user assumed to be readily dumbed to the >> 200 % level by Microsoft. Simply, I never could find how to >> disable the Ethernet and Wifi interfaces under Ubuntu: you >> disable them, within up to 30 seconds they are back, forcing >> routes and DNS's which you do not want for the analog >> modem connection. >> >> Jacques >> >> Jacques > > > >
